How

to Grow
Fresh Air:
Using houseplants
to remove toxins
and add oxygen to
our indoor
environments
 Everyday we take 23,000 breaths.
High concentrations of benzene in city air from petrol. Delhi’s atmosphere measured
at 45-55ppm by the Central Pollution Control Board. (>10ppm is carcinogenic).
The current safe standard is 0.001568ppm.

Exposure to contaminated air (and water) kills three times as many people
as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and nearly fifteen times more
than war and all forms of violence, according to the Lancet Commission on
Air Pollution.

Living in a polluted city,

breathing the air is equivalent
to smoking 44 cigarettes a day.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/your-building-might-be-making-
you-sick-joe-allen-can-help/
 This study clearly demonstrated that
even modest increases in CO2
concentration caused significant
decrease in cognitive functioning in 9
different categories.

https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-
content/uploads/advpub/2015/10/ehp.1510037.acco.pdf
Where is CO2 the highest in our environment? è The Bedroom & Vehicle
How much of our day do we spend in our bedroom? è 11 hours for the
average American (7 hours sleeping, 4 hours lying in bed watching TV, etc)
Dr. Wolverton is a NASA scientist, who studied how houseplants can
clean chemicals from indoor air environments and produce oxygen.
Kamal Meattle works in Delhi, India. He has worked to apply Dr.
Wolverton’s science to create clean air inside work buildings.

Converts CO2 Converts CO2 Removes

to oxygen to oxygen at formaldehyde
night and volatile
4 shoulder- compounds
high plants per 6-8 waist-high (VOCs)
person plants per
person
TOP 10 HOUSEPLANTS FOR CLEAN INDOOR AIR
 The silver lining to COVID-19 worldwide social isolation mandates
Cleaner air!

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